| Hackers target Twitter with Malware |
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Posted by Winston Chim
on Wednesday, 06 August 2008. 12:35 GMT
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CNet "Twitter's time has finally come. The microblogging service, once the playground of the Web 2.0 digerati, is now mainstream enough to be targeted by online criminals. Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a fake Twitter profile created solely for the purpose of infecting people's computers. The profile, with an alias that means "pretty rabbit" in Portuguese, has posted a link that purports to be a pornographic video, but is instead Trojan software masquerading as MP3 files that steals data from the machine, according to the Kaspersky's Viruslist.com blog. ... The attack is dangerous because it does not require programming skills and could spread easily if it ends up high in Google search engine rankings. That is possible because Google indexes unprotected Twitter profiles. " |
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